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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:36
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In article <nevin-2001960346340001@150.135.1.79>,
Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>In article <4dplap$qr3@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
>Krishna Swamy) wrote:
>
>> >    Sigh...  Explain to me how your damn Mac is going to connect to
>> >    the stinking URL when you are connected to the Internet via
>> >    a terminal program running through a 2400 baud modem?  Yes, I
>> >    am REALLY waiting to know how the Mac manages to connect
>> >    to the URL.  
>
>> No, I already know the answer.  It is impossible for it to work
>> in my situation.
>
>Care to explain to the rest of us why it won't work?  Have you ever
>actually tried it, or is this just some made-up argument based on the way
>you think Macs work?  The only thing I've noticed on my Mac when I've had
>a slower modem (9600 baud until last year on my main machine) is that it
>takes longer to download the page.

Because you need to be connected through SLIP/PPP or something similar
and I am not?

Ravi
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Ravi K. Swamy                http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/
rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu         root@genom.com
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From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 20 Jan 1996 13:36:40 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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